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solid piece of metal, not only enables the exterior end of the 

 handle to be ' guarded,' or counter-sunk, so as both to protect 

 it and prevent the line hitching round it, but at the same time 

 makes it practicable to dispense altogether with the second. or 

 exterior side plate. Hence (point first) a considerable diminu- 

 tion in the weight of the reel, with increased rather than 

 diminished strength. 



To gain in the handle the maximum of possible leverage 



'PENNELL' SALMON RKF.L, FIG. i. (Right-hand plate.) 



(point two) I have adopted a form of handle l which, in a 4^- 

 inch reel, gives an increased leverage, or winding-in power, of 

 half an inch in actual measurement, or, mechanically speaking, 

 somewhere about doubles it. The doubled leverage will tell, 

 from the first putting together of the rod until the gaffing of 

 the last fish of the day gives the wearied muscles of the right 

 arm and back a not unwelcome respite. 



1 A variation of this handle, with an extension of it right across the reel 

 from side to side, is known as 'BrightV handle, but it offers no, additional 

 advantages and adds materially to the weight. 



